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[Question] How should one deal with life threatening infections or air planes?

Nacruno96Oct 29, 2020, 3:35 AM

1 point

24 comments1 min readLW link

“Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling”, Henighan et al 2020 {OA}

gwernOct 29, 2020, 1:45 AM

27 points

11 comments LW link

(arxiv.org)

Secular Solstice Online (Americas)

RaemonOct 28, 2020, 11:28 PM

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s holding back outsourcing to cloud labs?

ChristianKlOct 28, 2020, 11:07 PM

25 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Reasons that discussions might feel hopeless

gogishvilliOct 28, 2020, 7:59 PM

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What risks concern you which don’t seem to have been seriously considered by the community?

plexOct 28, 2020, 6:27 PM

17 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #123]: Inferring what is valuable in order to align recommender systems

Rohin ShahOct 28, 2020, 5:00 PM

20 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Draft papers for REALab and Decoupled Approval on tampering

Jonathan Uesato and Ramana Kumar

Oct 28, 2020, 4:01 PM

47 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Biextensional Equivalence

Scott GarrabrantOct 28, 2020, 2:07 PM

43 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

“Cartesian Frames” Talk #2 this Sunday at 2pm (PT)

Rob BensingerOct 28, 2020, 1:59 PM

30 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Integers as Compression

Chris_LeongOct 28, 2020, 7:36 AM

9 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it

Richard Korzekwa Oct 28, 2020, 4:46 AM

212 points

54 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Desperation hamster wheels

Nicole RossOct 28, 2020, 2:32 AM

97 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(www.cuttingmangoes.com)

Notes on Honesty

David GrossOct 28, 2020, 12:54 AM

46 points

7 comments20 min readLW link

How can I reconcile these COVID test false-negative numbers?

Optimization ProcessOct 27, 2020, 11:56 PM

15 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Babble challenge: 50 ways to stop torture

seedOct 27, 2020, 7:38 PM

8 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Review and then Semi-Walkthrough: Star Traders: Frontiers

ZviOct 27, 2020, 6:50 PM

11 points

1 comment24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Memory reconsolidation for self-affection

Kaj_SotalaOct 27, 2020, 10:10 AM

52 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Whence the symptoms of social media?

KatjaGraceOct 27, 2020, 7:30 AM

20 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

Looking for Roommate in California

xiaolongbaoOct 27, 2020, 5:18 AM

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Dutch-Booking CDT: Revised Argument

abramdemskiOct 27, 2020, 4:31 AM

51 points

24 comments16 min readLW link

Announcing Data Secrets Lox: An Alternative to Slate Star Codex Open Threads

quanticleOct 27, 2020, 4:24 AM

26 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Age Later

PeterMcCluskeyOct 27, 2020, 4:21 AM

28 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

On the Dangers of Time Travel

lsusrOct 27, 2020, 3:57 AM

21 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds

DanielFilanOct 27, 2020, 3:20 AM

55 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

A Correspondence Theorem

johnswentworthOct 26, 2020, 11:28 PM

30 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Top Time Travel Interventions?

abramdemskiOct 26, 2020, 11:25 PM

44 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)

alkjashOct 26, 2020, 8:25 PM

303 points

69 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Does playing hard to get work? AB testing for romance

amplemapleOct 26, 2020, 3:29 PM

17 points

26 comments5 min readLW link

Additive Operations on Cartesian Frames

Scott GarrabrantOct 26, 2020, 3:12 PM

62 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

Supervised learning of outputs in the brain

Steven ByrnesOct 26, 2020, 2:32 PM

28 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

September 2020 gwern.net newsletter

gwernOct 26, 2020, 1:38 PM

17 points

1 comment LW link

(www.gwern.net)

Defensible positions

Chris_LeongOct 26, 2020, 10:37 AM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Sam Altman at SlateStarCodex Online Meetup

JoshuaFoxOct 26, 2020, 10:26 AM

24 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

But what kinds of puppets are we?

KatjaGraceOct 26, 2020, 8:40 AM

13 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] Models predicting significant violence in the US?

kdbscottOct 25, 2020, 6:45 PM

54 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Some criticisms of polling

Jimdrix_HendriOct 25, 2020, 6:45 PM

4 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Reply to Jebari and Lundborg on Artificial Superintelligence

Richard_NgoOct 25, 2020, 1:50 PM

31 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Increasing Isolation Again

jefftkOct 25, 2020, 1:10 PM

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Yet another world spirit sock puppet

KatjaGraceOct 25, 2020, 5:30 AM

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] Which headlines and narratives are mostly clickbait?

PontorOct 25, 2020, 1:19 AM

5 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Why Huntington-Hill?

jefftkOct 25, 2020, 12:50 AM

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Notes on Courage

David GrossOct 24, 2020, 10:32 PM

15 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

“Prediction” and “explanation” are not causation

jasoncrawfordOct 24, 2020, 6:55 PM

12 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Karlsruhe Rationalist Meetup

wilmOct 24, 2020, 8:23 AM

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The Darwin Game—Rounds 0 to 10

lsusrOct 24, 2020, 2:17 AM

107 points

34 comments4 min readLW link

Babble and Prune : 5 new ideas

Teja PrabhuOct 23, 2020, 11:42 PM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is our true life expectancy?

Adam ZernerOct 23, 2020, 11:17 PM

15 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

No Causation without Reification

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 23, 2020, 8:28 PM

21 points

38 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Desperately looking for the right person to discuss an alignment related idea with. (and some general thoughts for others with similar problems)

Rasmus EideOct 23, 2020, 7:42 PM

5 points

9 comments3 min readLW link